I have a long, multi-part Angular form on my <a href=”http://www.divorces.ca/” title=”Toronto Uncontested Divorces – Lawyer Prepared”>new website</a>. At a certain point, I began to find it difficult to review the source to ensure that the model being produced lined up with the output I wanted, so I wrote a bookmarklet that displays the ngModel attribute above each form control.

The current version unfortunately requires jQuery to be used on the page.

I’ve been playing around with node.js and I decided to try setting up a web socket connection. I’m using socket.io on the server side and Dojo Toolkit on the client side. Things on the server-side were straightforward. However, I decided to give dojox/socket a shot and got the following error:

-debug- destroying non-socket.io upgrade

As it turns out, dojox/socket is a fairly plain wrapper over the browser’s built-in Websocket object (with long-polling support added). Socket.io does rather a bit more and (rightly or wrongly) seems to prefer talking to itself. Luckily, if you’re not too picky, you can easily include the official (AMD-compatible) socket.io client: